Featured Farmer: Melinda from The Homesteading and Preparedness Collective Listen to Melinda on The Urban Farm Podcast! Tell me a little about your urban farm. What’s its name? Size? I live in Columbus, Ohio on a .28-acre plot. I have a corner lot and it is mostly flat but I do have a slight slope…

The Creation of a Community Garden By Anne-Marie Miller I would like to take you, with my words, to a special place. At first glance it might not seem special to you. Just a bit of land nestled by a house of prayer, with a creek running through the back of the property. It has…

Be a Plant Diversity Superhero: Tips and Tricks for Saving Seeds Special Thanks to Native Seeds/SEARCH for permission to use this article. View the original here. At one time, seed saving was a necessity. Gardeners and farmers carefully selected and stored the best seeds from their harvests, ensuring they had seed for planting in subsequent years. The…

Featured Farmer: Denise Stalder from Erlengrabenli in Ontario, Canada Learn more about Denise’s story and listen to her on The Urban Farm Podcast here! Tell me a little about your urban farm. What’s its name? Size? My farm is technically suburban I guess, since I am just walking distance from town. We call it Erlengrabenli.…

Cultivating Customers: A Farmer’s Guide to Online Marketing By Simon Huntley Editor’s Note: This is Chapter 2 of Cultivating Customers: A Farmer’s Guide to Online Marketing by Simon Huntley just released in October 2016. If you have any interest in marketing your farm online, it’s a must-read! BUILDING ONLINE INTEREST Now that you know…

Coconut Oil May be Environmentally & Socially Unsustainable By Emily Powell If you’re paying attention to national food fads, or you shop at Whole Foods, or you subscribe to any sort of social or broadcasting media, you’ve probably seen coconut oil advertised a time or two. Coconut oil, praised by certain media entities for its…

The Secret to Creating Change in our Own World By Greg Peterson I was reading an article by Colin the No Impact Man recently, and in his post he opened the door to begin exploring just how to go about changing peoples minds about living with a lighter footprint. He writes “without judgment” as the opening…

Craig Jenkins-Sutton on Tree Selection and Planting Planting trees to a proper depth for the best root health. Craig’s love of the landscape was a natural progression of his upbringing in central Minnesota where he grew up at a youth camp. When he attended college in Chicago, he maintained his connection with the outdoors…

Featured Farmer: Ryan Leach of Live Simply Live Richly Farm Tell me a little about your urban farm. What’s its name? Size? Our farm name is Live Simply Live Richly Farm. We have a year round, homemade geothermal hoop-house. We make things people normally buy like soap, lard, yogurt, sauerkraut, and many other things. The…